Label Makers Urge Court To Toss Antitrust Case

Law360, New York (April 9, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT) -- A pair of adhesive-label makers caught up in antitrust litigation have called for the dismissal of the case against them, urging a federal judge to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's heightened pleading standard for conspiracy claims, as other courts have done.

The companies, Bemis Co. Inc. and its subsidiary Morgan Adhesives Co., filed a supplemental brief with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, arguing that recent rulings in two other antitrust cases applying the high court's opinion warranted the district...